Some say that Canadian banks are so strong Canadians don't have to worry. But the experts say "Canada is in Serious Trouble". DBRS, Moody's and Standard and Poors all have downgraded Canadian banks to a "negative" outlook. The Bank of Canada says our housing market is 30% overvalued, Deutsche Bank says 63% and CMHC says 35%. With average house prices now over $1.3 million in Toronto and Vancouver, a crash appears imminent.

Canadian banks have over $1 trillion invested in residential mortgages. If values come down, banks could easily find themselves under water at which time they will be permitted to take your hard earned deposits to pay their debts. Deposits under $100,000 appear to be covered by CDIC insurance but anything above, personal or business, will be fair game for the bail-in.

As I read that, it struck me that this is precisely what America is heading for. There are going to be people that have vast quantities of food and supplies stored up that are still going to blow their brains out when they see what happens to this country because they don’t have any hope. Without hope, I don’t know how anyone is going to make it through what is coming. If you think that the unrest and violence in Milwaukee are disturbing, just wait for a while, because much, much worse is on the way.

It isn’t just in Milwaukee that violence is rising. Over in Chicago, we just witnessed the deadliest day in more than a decade. As I recently detailed on The Most Important News, there are at least 150,000 gang members living in Chicago today, and only about 13,000 law enforcement officers of all types to deal with them. That means that the police are outnumbered by a more than 10 to 1 margin, and at this point shootings are up about 50 percent compared to the same time last year.

If unrest and violence are spiking this dramatically in places like Milwaukee and Chicago now, what are things going to be like when economic conditions start getting really, really bad in this nation?

In 1861 President Lincoln authorized the creation of greenbacks as currency. The value dropped 66% over several years

In 1933 President Roosevelt gave Americans one month to turn in all their gold to the Federal Reserve. People lost 41% of their savings in one day.

In 1971 Nixon unlinked the dollar to gold with the stroke of a pen. Since then the dollar has dropped more than 90%

Present. Bank bail-ins, pension confiscation, and negative interest rates already happening in Europe and Japan.

There are some rivers down in Louisiana that have crested three to four feet higher than their previous all-time records, and Governor Edwards is using the words “unprecedented” and “historic” to describe these floods. So far, 20,000 people have been rescued by authorities, and Governor Edwards even had to evacuate the Governor’s Mansion due to chest-high water in the basement.

Meanwhile, horrible wildfires continue to rip through the state of California. The latest major wildfire to make headlines all across the nation has literally reduced homes, offices and businesses to “smoldering rubble” in the little town of Lower Lake.

So that seems like a very odd “coincidence” – we are being hit by the worst flooding in US history at a time when we have also experienced the worst wildfires in US history. Is there some kind of a connection? Why are all of these disasters happening to us one right after another? Could it be possible that there is an explanation other than bad luck?

As you can probably guess, I have come to the conclusion that we are experiencing something that goes far beyond bad luck. Just like many others out there, I believe that someone is trying to tell us something, but unfortunately most Americans are simply not paying attention.

The Palestinian Authority's propaganda over the past few years has spared no effort to debunk the inextricable Jewish link to the holy Jerusalem site, relentlessly underscoring only the Muslim link to Al-Aqsa mosque. Recently, the Palestinians have begun claiming their right to the site stretches beyond the Al-Aqsa compound to include the entire site - even the Western Wall.

Nevertheless, two historical documents - "A brief Guide to Al-Haram Al-Sharif," issued in 1924 by Jerusalem Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini's Supreme Muslim Council, and an official Jordanian tourist map from 1956 - clearly identify only the familiar Al-Aqsa mosque compound as a Muslim site.

The Supreme Muslim Council's document states that "the site's affiliation with Solomon's Temple is undisputed." The Jordanian map, which is in the possession of map collector Haim Steinberger, clearly indicates that at the time, Jordan recognized only the southern part of the compound, where Al-Aqsa mosque is, as Muslim territory.

Both documents contradict recent claims by the Palestinians and the Waqf, the trust that controls and manages the current Islamic edifices on and around Al-Aqsa mosque, that the site is only holy to Muslims.

Put in simpler terms: By recruiting soldiers from other EU countries, the Bundeswehr could, possibly, achieve its personnel goal of 170,000 career and temporary soldiers easier. This kind of close collaboration is in line with the proposals for a new European foreign policy and security strategy recently submitted by EU chief diplomat Federica Mogherini.

While it does not advocate an EU army, it does call for closer collaboration and capacity to act when it comes to collective defence, in order to improve the EU's ability to respond to crises.

According to Jack and Diane Ruhl of the National Catholic Reporter, who decided to research this particular topic, since 1950, the Vatican has spent a disgusting $3,994,797,060.10. That’s nearly $4 billion to keep things hush hush. That number may even be a bit conservative, as we cannot know for sure the agreed upon “under the table” amount. 

An incredible amount of cash from hard working people who support the good faith and intentions of the Church — people who are parents to little boys being sexually abused — is being used to cover up unfathomable crimes executed by priests.

Officers Ricardo Cordova and Frank Cho were responding to a call concerning a presumed drug deal in a parking lot, when they came under fire from members of a local street gang. The policemen rapidly found themselves in a perilous situation, being inferior to their attackers in both numbers and firepower.

Fortunately for them, 79-year old Wendy Robinson was watching the events from her kitchen window and decided to intervene. The elderly woman equipped herself with her personal bulletproof vest and an AK-47 assault rifle, and ran to the officers’ rescue, firing more than 160 rounds in the direction of the assailants, injuring two of them.

Elections in the US seem to be a form of entertainment, a mere distraction, more so than a real process of democracy and election. Every time elections come around, we are witnessing the illusion of democracy, and it’s not a secret.  Politics, elections, and government policy are not controlled by the politicians; they seem to be the ‘fall’ people.

They too take orders, and have a ‘boss.’ Above the government sit the corporations, and above them the big banks. This is the current power structure of modern day global dominance.

Apart from corporate sponsors like big oil and energy companies, it’s not a secret that Hillary [Clinton] has the backing of those who literally control the supply of money, those who basically created this entire system. A great example comes from a $100,000 a head fundraiser at the home of Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent New York businesswoman, and a member of the famous Rothschild banking family. A family that has been accused of, as Jay Syrmopoulos from The Free Thought Project  puts it, “pulling the strings of many different governments through their control of various economic systems throughout the world.” Prior to this fundraiser, the Wikileaks Clinton emails release shed further light on Hillary’s relationship with the Rothschild family.

Politicians are for sale. A 2014 study from Princeton University revealed that the United States is not a democracy or a republic, but rather an oligarchy where the balance of power and control of global resources lies within the hands of a very small, tight-knit group of people, and that these groups of people basically control and dictate government policy.  You can see corporate influence in so many areas; the TPP is one out of many great examples .

Afghanistan: A planned drawdown of troops in 2015 was curtailed by President Obama to leave more troops for combat and advisory missions. This week, US forces were forced to abandon military equipment that then fell into the hands of ISIS.

Iraq: After a removal of major combat forces in 2011, Iraq has become a battleground once again. President Obama has sent roughly 4,600 troops in for combat and advisory roles and built a new base in northern Iraq called “Firebase Bell.”

Syria: Though the US had been supporting Syrian rebel groups, including jihadists, since 2013, US troops have entered the fighting in the country. In January of this year, US special forces took control of a military base in northern Syria.

Libya: In 2011, the US assisted in the overthrow of the Gaddafi government in Libya. In the aftermath, Libya has fallen into total chaos, making it ripe for ISIS to establish a significant presence. Now, according to the Pentagon, US forces are fighting on the ground to drive ISIS out.

This excludes all of the off-the-books special operations in over 100 countries, and the major role the US is playing in supplying weapons for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen. Among those weapons are controversial cluster bombs, which are banned by many countries for their impact on civilians.